List of People From Kansas - Scientists and Programmers

Scientists and Programmers

  • Charles Bachman, (born 1924), computer scientist, Manhattan, Kansas.
  • C. Olin Ball, (1893–1982), food scientist, Abilene, Kansas.
  • John D. Carmack, (born 1970), computer programmer, Shawnee Mission, Kansas.
  • George Washington Carver, (1864–1943), botanist and chemist, Minneapolis, Kansas.
  • Carl Owen Dunbar, (1891–1979), geologist and paleontologist, Cherokee County, Kansas.
  • David Fairchild, (1869–1954), botanist and explorer, Manhattan, Kansas.
  • Philip Fox, (1878–1944), astronomer, Manhattan, Kansas.
  • Ebbe Hoff, (1906–1985), neurologist, Rexford, Kansas.
  • Jack Kilby, (1923–2005), inventor of the integrated circuit, Great Bend, Kansas.
  • Homer A. McCrerey, (1919–1999), meteorologist and oceanographer, Hiawatha, Kansas.
  • Karl Menninger, (1893–1990), psychiatrist, Topeka, Kansas.
  • Charles D. Michener, (1918–), entomologist, Lawrence, Kansas.
  • Lou Montulli, a founding engineer at Netscape and responsible for many HTML and web innovations.
  • Ernest Fox Nichols, (1869–1924), scientist, Leavenworth County, Kansas.
  • Wallace Pratt, (1885–1981), petroleum geologist, Phillipsburg, Kansas.
  • Walter Sutton, (1877–1916), geneticist and physician, Russell, Kansas.
  • George Tiller, (1941–2009), medical doctor and controversial late-term abortion provider, Wichita, Kansas.
  • Clyde Tombaugh, (1906–1997), astronomer, Burdett, Kansas.
  • Samuel Wendell Williston, (1852–1918), scientist, Manhattan, Kansas.
  • Douglas Youvan, (born 1955), biophysicist and inventor, Frontenac, Kansas.

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